Business Blogging
To Blog or Not to Blog – Where Does the Time Go?
Good news, bad news: We have been working more on production and editing gigs, but I have less time for business blogging.
Patty in the Editing Bay
It’s a real Catch 22 – I’ve got lots of fun stuff to blog about, but hardly any time to do it. When I was in my early twenties, I asked my father why it was that time seemed to slip by faster as we got older. Remember when you were eight and it seemed like a thousand years until your birthday? So when anyone asked how old you were, you’d say “eight and a half” or “eight and three quarters?” My father said that when you are two years old, a year is half of your life. When you are 20, a year is one/twentieth of your life, and so on. Now that I’m – er, uh – okay, I admit it – 60 years old, one year is one/sixtieth of my life, and when I’m a hundred, a year will slip by like a day.
Where Does the Time Go?
Thus it seems that there is hardly enough time in the day to do all the things we need or want to do anymore. I have stopped subscribing to magazines. Why? Because I have a towering stack of magazines that have never even been cracked open. I used to be a member of a paperback book ordering service. You know the kind that lure you in with six free books, and then you only have to buy so many more throughout the year? Unread books just started to stack up because I never had the chance to read any.
Books to read
Even with the best intentions, I’d bring a book or a couple of magazines along on a staycation to a local hotel, or on a trip back home to Detroit, but just never had a free moment to read except maybe on the plane. Scientists have said that we grow an entirely new skin every seven years, so maybe I have grown many lifetimes away from the fourteen-year-old I used to be, the one who would go into her bedroom and curl up with a tome like “Gone With the Wind” (I read it twice!) or anything by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence, Anais Nin or Colette.
And business blogging sometimes falls to the wayside.
Time-Saving Devices – Are They Really?
It’s my premise that all the time-saving devices that now glut our lives, on the contrary, suck all the time out of our lives! Think about it. How long do you spend at the computer screen? And then when you return home from the office, how long do you sit on the couch in front of the television screen? Are you a video gamer? Do you own a cell phone with multiple applications? A laptop? A Bluetooth? An iPad? When do you disconnect? Do you ever take a walk outside in Nature, away from all the cement? And if not, then why are you alive?
The Singularity
A futurist and inventor named Ray Kurzweil wrote a book called “The Singularity is Near,” which opines that within the next century, “there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality.” It’s a fascinating theory. Will we humans indeed become one with the Borg? (Please see Star Trek episodes to learn more about the Borg.)
Babbling brook where Patty and Mark got married in 1987
Before that happens, I want to make sure to have spent as much time sitting next to a babbling brook. There I can observe the dragonflies and hummingbirds flit against the backdrop of a sunny blue sky. It’s completely meditative..
The Local Swimming Hole
Yesterday, two of my friends and I spent the entire day in the sunshine jumping into our local swimming hole. We topped the day off with a climb up a rock we had dubbed “Big Rock” 34 years ago. It’s still big and the path up to it is choked with manzanita and scrub oak. I still have cat-claw marks on my legs and my hands are a bit raw from the decomposed granite rocks. But today I’m stoked to engage the world via my fingertips in a crazy little realm known as business blogging.
And what about you? Have you had any interaction with Nature recently?
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Patty Mooney is a Vice President and Video Producer at award-winning San Diego video production company, Crystal Pyramid Productions
